US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 30 for "Directional sensing for programming guidance" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,316, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Directional sensing for programming guidance" was invented by Robert S. Raike (Minneapolis), Jadin C. Jackson (Roseville, Minn.), Scott R. Stanslaski (Shoreview, Minn.), Eric J. Panken (Edina, Minn.), Christopher L. Pulliam (Plymouth, Minn.), Timothy R. Abraham (Lino Lakes, Minn.), Michelle A. Case (Blaine, Minn.), Paula Andrea Elma Dassbach Green (Minneapolis), Abbey Beuning Holt Becker (Shoreview, Minn.) and Rene A. Molina (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and techniques for identifying electrodes closest to a target region o...